mat_epice

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by mat_epice 3y ago
HN rules say: “… please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.” Therefore, the title should be “gnuplot for numpy.”
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by mat_epice 3y ago
If the GP wanted to hide it, it’s a pretty strange thing to explicitly unhide it.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
105 errata (pretty small ones) in a 1000-page book. For highly technical work, I'd say that's not too bad. Looking at the errata for Vol I of TAOCP, there's a lot more for a much shorter work (600 pages).
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by mat_epice 3y ago
I print to my Brother MFC-L8900CDW from my iphone all the time, works flawlessly. Not a cheap printer, though, as you point out.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
That is of course true, but not the argument I was refuting.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
Citation required. You cannot replace Diablo Canyon with $6B of solar and batteries. Installing your proposed $4B of solar will get you 4GW at peak, which will produce about 5840 GWh per year due to variations in sunlight over the days and
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by mat_epice 3y ago
It also lets you play an engine (stockfish) running on your phone. I play offline on planes all the time.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
It’s just a distribution mechanism that users like. The page details other ways to install, including native methods. The container is at the top just because it will be the first thing many people will want to try.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
The article says you are correct, but the original dose is 325mg instead of 300 or 350 because the dose is 5 grains.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
This article suffers from a bad vocabulary collision. Distributed computing existed long before SETI@home, and will continue to exist as long as there isn’t just one computer doing everything. “Volunteer computing” is probably a better way
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by mat_epice 3y ago
I think they way they do this is they post a message to lkml with a “speak now or forever hold your peace” message. I think they won’t remove functionality if anyone has a credible use. If you’re ever on funky hardware and want to ensure co
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by mat_epice 3y ago
Binary size was a lot more of a problem before customers had to buy 8-16 GB of RAM to run a web browser.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
The point was that there is rarely a reason to not run ARM images, since they’re widely available. If I’m running M3 images on my Ryzen, performance is gonna be horrible, but why would I?
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by mat_epice 3y ago
My Dell laptop had one, which was very poorly done. Sitting in a dimly lit room, I would catch it self adjusting every several seconds. I ended up disabling it.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
I'm with you, although any writing I do is technical. I find that immediately micro-editing the fragment/sentence/paragraph I just wrote is easier than coming back as a separate step. Maybe it's because my first cut is s
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by mat_epice 3y ago
Indeed, it probably has one.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
iOS didn't exist on the 20th century web, so... ;)
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by mat_epice 3y ago
As a bit of a meta conversation, I'm a bit torn over book summaries as articles. I've suffered through many books that had a very good message, but should have been 20% as long as they were. Much repetition in every possible spot,
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by mat_epice 3y ago
ICBMs have used celestial guidance since the 50s. https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/snark-guidance...
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by mat_epice 3y ago
Many government-type travelers are obligated to go with the cheapest airfare that’s reasonable. I know folks who take 5:30am Delta flights so they can get loyalty benefits while obeying those rules, but these new spending levels makes gaini
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by mat_epice 3y ago
Mouse keys is a specific technology that uses the numpad arrow keys to move the mouse pointer, just like in the video. You can see more about it here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-mouse-keys-t...
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by mat_epice 3y ago
One theory with a lot of evidence behind it is that he was a combination of lactose intolerant and depressed. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1743237/pdf/v08...
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by mat_epice 3y ago
This is just a mirror of the official list, AFAIK.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
Just because you have a perpetual bond to pay for something doesn’t mean you have to stick with it. In fact, 100% of your capital is still there, so you can either migrate or go on-prem with what you still have. You can also engineer your f
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by mat_epice 3y ago
I can believe that this is true today. As recently as 15 or 20 years ago, Word was awful enough that seeing through significant technical documents was a terrible experience. Horror stories of large corrupted documents and mysterious format
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by mat_epice 3y ago
Using ascetic instead of aesthetic could be a very clever pun.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
From what I understand, cheap SSDs behave very badly under RAID. For example, Synology actively discourages Samsung EVO SSDs because they cause timeout issues.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
Who should require it? And how will it be enforced?
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by mat_epice 3y ago
Most links here have dozens of points, this (and a couple of others) only has seven. Perhaps a “hot” metric saw a few votes come in quickly and overestimated its general interest. It should fall off the front page very quickly.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
I disagree. Microsoft has a duty to keep their systems from accessing others at unreasonable rates when requested, even if it's being done at a user's request. Microsoft may not be perpetuating the DoS, but they seem to be complic

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